Discover + Adopt

CABHI’s Discover and Adopt (D+A) program helps healthcare and community-based organizations (e.g., long-term care homes, hospitals, home healthcare organizations, etc.) build their skills and receptivity to adopt innovation.

Organizations face many barriers to sourcing, testing, and adopting innovations (e.g., products, programs, or services) that can improve the quality of care and quality of life of those they serve.

The D+A program supports organizations with funding and training to build the skills and capacity required to introduce, implement, and sustain innovations in their own settings.

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Applications Open: May 5, 2026
Applications Close: June 5, 2026
Selected Applicant Notification: July 2026 (Date TBD)
Start Date: August 3, 2026
Orientation Session: August 2026 (Date TBD)
Program Phases 1-3: August 2026-July 2027
Final Report Due: August 31, 2027
Optional Program Phase 4 (Procure): September 2027-January 2028

Calling all Canadian healthcare and community-based organizations!

Looking for funding to bring innovation into your organization? The D+A program Call for Organizations, which is now open, offers up to $150,000 CAD in funding to Canadian healthcare and community-based organizations (long-term care homes, retirement homes, hospitals, home care, and community-based settings) so they can build their capacity to find, test, and adopt innovations that enhance the quality of care and quality of life of older persons and their care teams, bringing you one step closer to introducing, implementing, and sustaining innovation in your setting.

Through a matchmaking process, the D+A program connects organizations with innovators with promising solutions, so they can trial solutions that address their organization’s unique pain points. If one of the pain points listed below resonates with a need in your organization, apply now by completing the intake form by June 5, 2026, at 5 p.m. EDT.

Cognitive + Mental Health

A1 - Enhancing Social Engagement and Leisure Opportunities for Patients and Residents in Senior Care Settings
We are seeking a solution that enhances engagement, education, and independent leisure opportunities for those with cognitive and physical limitations.
The solution should be easy to use, safe, interactive, customizable, integrable, and accessible for older adults and care partners at the bedside, fostering a supportive environment.
A2 - Enhancing Translation, Communication, and Care for Clients with Cognitive Decline
We are seeking a solution to improve staff capacity to communicate and translate effectively with clients with declining cognitive abilities and/or differing communication abilities.
The solution should be accessible, easy to use, provide staff with tailored communication strategies, bridge language barriers; enhancing care delivery, interaction, and overall well-being.
A3 - Improving Monitoring of Care and Health Status in Homecare or Remote Care
We are seeking a solution to help identify and monitor current and emerging care and health status in homecare settings.
The solution should be cost-effective, reliable, AI based, monitor physical, mental, and social statuses
Quality of Care + Healthcare Delivery

B1 - Improving Staff Well-Being and Retention
We are seeking a solution to improve and enhance staff well-being and retention by reducing burnout, turnover, and improving morale.
The solution should foster a healthy, supportive, and sustainable workplace culture.
B2 - Reducing Administrative Burden In Care Planning and Delivery
We are seeking a solution that reduces administrative burden of multidisciplinary staff to allow staff to access resident insights across different clinical settings, including long-term care, home, care, and physicians.
The solution should be AI-based, easy to use, minimize administrative burden, ensure privacy, support a focused, proactive, data-informed care planning.
B3 - Enhancing Care Coordination and Planning
We are seeking a solution that enhances care coordination, planning, information sharing, and patient transfer process shared across multiple stakeholders and entities.
The solution should meet privacy and consent requirements, be easy to use, have an integrated approach, and be accessible by multiple organizations and entities; including an alternate level of care program.
Quality of Life + Client Experience

C1 - Preventing and Reducing Falls In Senior Care Settings
We are seeking a solution to assist point-of-care staff in the notification and prevention of falls.
The solution should ideally provide real-time alerts and notifications and inform workflows and tracking procedures to enhance falls prevention, overall safety and well-being of residents.
C2 - Enhancing Activities of Daily Living Support
We are seeking a solution that enhances ADL support related to transfers, walking, and propelling for residents in long-term care, including those with complex needs.
The solution should be cost-effective, adaptable, and enhance quality of life while being safe and easy to use.
C3 - Improving Cognitive Functioning Assessment of Clients
We are seeking a solution to assess cognitive functioning accurately and reliably in long-term care residents.
The solution should provide reliable information to staff, and proven to provide accurate screening results, enabling staff to take appropriate action based on the assessed levels resulting in enhanced overall care quality.
C4 - Improving Pain Assessment and Management of Clients
We are seeking a solution to accurately assess pain in clients, residents, patients, including those with cognitive impairment and varied communication abilities.
The solution should provide reliable information to staff, enabling them to take appropriate actions based on the assessed levels, enhancing overall care quality.
Skills Assessment + Training + Education

D1 - Enhancing Clinical Skills Training for Staff in Senior Care Settings
We are seeking a solution to enhance clinical skills training for staff caring for residents and patients in senior care settings.
The solution should be able to provide hands-on clinical skills training for staff by utilizing virtual reality, scenarios, mock-situations, and utilizing up to date practices.
D2 - Improving Mealtime Experience for Clients
We are seeking a solution to improve client and resident satisfaction with mealtime delivery and experience, while improving staff efficiency during mealtimes.
The solution should focus on food quality, temperature, mealtime ambiance, and workflow efficiency.
D3 - Improving Hydration for Residents in LTC
We are seeking a solution to improve safe and adequate hydration for residents in long-term care, including those with dementia or swallowing difficulties.
The solution should be safe for staff and residents, decrease staff workload, while providing a comfortable experience to residents.
Mobility + Physical Activity

E1 - Enhancing Inpatient Rehabilitation Physical Activity
We are seeking a solution to enhance monitoring and improve motivation of patients' physical activity during inpatient rehabilitation through gamification.
The solution should motivate patients, keep patients engaged, and encourage independence.

Success Stories

“Our team from the Perley Health Centre of Excellence in Frailty-Informed Care™ really benefitted from the structured approach of the D+A program; it helped us establish a common language and ensured we arrived at the implementation stage in a timely manner. With the ongoing support from CABHI, a core team was established from the outset, which promoted a sense of ownership and enhanced accountability. It really helped us build capacity across our organization. The D+A program is also unique in that it supports the sustainability and long-term impacts of technology implementation through its’ funding model. We look forward to measuring and sharing the impact of our project and our continued collaboration with CABHI.”

“We found the resources really helpful for us to be intentional about planning and thinking through the processes that would be required to execute any implementation. The program also allowed for connections to groups that we normally would not otherwise have interacted with. The allocation of funds seemed to be based on our willingness to change and foster growth vs funding a specific program. It allows for organizations to be selected for priorities that align with our own needs as opposed to other models where it is a specific program implementation that is to be funded. We really appreciated those aspects of the program and are very excited to be a part of it.”

“The CABHI D+A program is important and unique for our healthcare organization. The program offers the flexibility for us to identify our clinical pain points that we think are important to our patients and what our patients think are important. The program provides coaching and guidance in how to assess the innovation appropriately. The program brings innovators with solutions to our organization, which I think is amazing. We had 8 innovators to evaluate, which prior to the program, we knew very little about. I think that this process brings together innovators and healthcare providers in a very helpful and constructive way that supports potential implementation process of innovation at Hamilton Health Sciences.”

“I think that the D+A program is a fantastically unique program. Not only does it provide funding which means we can have dedicated resources allocated to the innovation project, but also provides education and coaching on adopting innovation. That includes everything from how you engage stakeholders at the beginning of the process, how to dig deep and understand what the problem is that you’re dealing with from all different perspectives of your stakeholders to, at the very end, how to assess the impact of the innovation that you’ve adopted. For example, how do you identify unintended consequences? And how do you produce your business case including your ROI that you would present to your organization?”

“Bruyère Health is delighted to be part of CABHI’s D+A program. The program has brought together like-mind organizations that are striving to use practical innovations to better serve their clients and to increase their innovation capacity through CABHI’s education and training sessions. We are just beginning to see the fruits of what a shared innovation journey can result in for Bruyère Health and I look forward to sharing those fruits with healthcare organizations across the country and beyond.”

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